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One reaction down, now to wait for Felicity to look up. I was trying to figure out exactly what they were doing in the 3rd panel, but after reading the blog entry, I guess they’re just leading her into position before just telling her “ok look up.”

*scratching noggin’*
i guess that would be possible if Niviene held Felicity by the hand. She is a very poerful mage, thát much has become clear, so I wouldn’t put it beyond her that she found a way to, indeed, let dreamland people touch “real-world” people.

You can walk into a pool of water and still see what’s on the other side of the Pool? That’s interesting. Merlin tried to reach into the water and found that didn’t have any effect, but I would have thought actually entering the water might be disruptive…

Why are everyone under the water so silent? Niviene and Merlin seemed to have been able to communicate just fine before they figured out what was going on and how to get Niviene out of the water. Their silence and embrace looks like they’re at a funeral or something… or maybe I’m just a dark person ^^;;

And Alex could have told Nicole not to wear jeans or whatever that material her pants are made of that looks like it’d be awfully uncomfortable when wet! Why *did* she need to walk into the water to see Felicity when Dan could see Nastajia from the shore just fine?

D’awwww. that’s… man, that’s.. excuse me, I’ve got something in my eye. *sniff* This reminds me so much of my first day of highschool, when I looked around and saw a girl who’d been my best friend in the second grade, but I hadn’t seen since.
That was beautiful, Scott.

I love how Alex is looking up at Niviene and Nicole while Nastajia looks like she’s trying to explain to Felicity what is about to happen. I imagine that there aren’t going to be too much by way of words said between the two until Felicity makes a sarcastic, yet poignant, comment!

Great page today. One thing that I would do, though, is to just make the last panel a reaction shot without the bubble. I think that she wouldn’t even be able to get a gasp out. But in any case, what a beautiful moment for the entire series.

I’m glad Alex got some magical assistance getting Felicity to the pool, given his usual problem with directions. I’d been wondering how he was going to manage the transition back to mer-man short of going back by way of their undersea city.

I had a mental image of Alex setting out to find Felicity like a Polaris missile shooting up out of the ocean – that would have been a cool scene to do.

I’ll say that these last few weeks of pages, starting with Niviene peeking up through the water onward, have been exceptionally pivotal. Like, six whole years, all building up to this, the ultimate proof of “life on other realms” (or, in fact, proof of other realms, period) beyond the experiential, personal dreams of just one individual.

All the comic, up until this arc, suddenly feels like Contact (1997) after Arroway’s 18-hour/split-second journey to another galaxy and the troubled aftermath where she has to justify a whole lifetime of research before the world. But now the experience is no longer just an experience, but also a truth within grasp.

At this point, I think the question would now become more incorporative of the exact nature of that grasp. Now that it is temporarily possible for the other realm (layer?) to be seen in this world without having to dream, is there a scientific measurement of such a distance? Can it be legibly recorded for posterity? If it could be reached, how would those in the story act most responsibly with such knowledge?

I think that from here on out, nothing will be the same for Nicole and Daniel as it was previously. Everything in their own lives will be touched and affected in some way.

It will be interesting to watch what direction you will take this story next. I think I found your comic over three years ago and I have been reading it ever since, especially because the idea of dreams as parallel layers or universes fascinates me. This arc vindicates my interest in your comic. Please keep doing what you’re doing.

Keeping within the lore, I dó believe that Nicole is going to ponder the questions You pose.
Only problem: she’d have to start studying theorethical physics, with quantum mechanics and 11-dimensional calculus as specializations.

Nót something easily converted to an entertaining comic 😛 (unless one is of an extremely geeky kind)

Ps: Alternate realities áre entirely within the realm of theorethical possibilities. It depends on the school of physics one advocates, string-theory, branes, multiple-universe-foam-bubbles, every action spawns an additional reality and whatnot, whìch model of reality is “real”

I am always reminded of Michio Kaku’s explanation of the carp, looking up through the surface of the pond, wondering why there sometimes stíll is movement, despite the fact that his world ends there. Having nó inkling about that extra “dimension”

One cool thing for me, whether it’s intended or not, is that the Dreamland folks look a bit different through the ripples of the pool. It’s almost like seeing them for the first time, like Dan and Nicole are doing.